the gearbox under a lot of stress
– it would be firing at
around 30 rounds
per second,
which for a
stock gearbox is
quite damaging.
Most importantly,
retailers won’t repair a
gun under warranty if heavy
batteries have been used –
they can tell, guys!
The daddy of LiPos is a 14.8v
monster. This can dish out some
serious power and your rate of fire will
be immense, but only the most upgraded
gearboxes can really handle this.
Midas Airsoft is one of the few
companies I have seen using this battery
successfully game after game. Mark from
Midas has built several super high-speed
AEGs with this battery as its power source
and it is truly something to behold. At
these levels of upgrade you are looking
at a trigger response that will top a
Systema, a rate of fire around 50-60rps
and a wad of cash the size of a bottle of
BBs disappearing from your wallet (the
upgrades are expensive – but not as much
as the ammo you will get through).
BATTERIES
The last thing I want to comment on is
connectors. I said before that the Deans is
the main connector (which it is), but there
are a few others:
Mini/Large Tamiya: We all know these
well as they come as standard on NiMH
and NiCD batteries.
Deans: More common on LiPos, though I
have seen them on NiMH before.
XT60 Connectors: a little different from
the norm. These are used a lot by RC
guys (remote controlled, such
as boats and planes) and
they are supposedly
better than Deans.
They use ‘bullet’
connectors
(similar to the
Tamiya connector but
far superior) which give great
contact. The best thing about XT60s
though is the ability to solder them. They
have more of a half-cylinder spade which
allows for the solder to encompass the
wire, making life much easier.
These are the main ones I have seen and
used. There are a few more but you can’t
get them as standard with your batteries.
Next issue we will take a look at some
of the upgrade parts available for your
gearboxes – pistons, high speed gears,
nozzles – and will discuss the need for a
MOSFET when using high-power batteries.
Special thanks to Midas Airsoft for
supplying us with a host of batteries to use,
some of them truly remarkable. ■
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